Director's Perspective
Welcome to the Office of Technical Guidance
Edith A. Chalk, Director
Welcome to the Office of Technical Guidance. Our technical guidance activity
develops and issues Government-wide and Department-wide technical guidance to ensure that
classified nuclear weapons-related information and other information assets critical to the
national security and to other Governmental, commercial, or private interests are identified
for proper protection. HS-92 consists of two program areas - weapons and technology. The weapons
program oversees the issuance of classification and control guidance in all areas of nuclear
weapons science, design, development, weaponization, production, military use, use control,
testing, stockpile stewardship, manufacture, arms control and verification, nonproliferation,
intelligence, mutual defense treaties, computer code activities, and inertial confinement fusion.
The technology program oversees the issuance of classification and controlled guidance in technology
areas such as isotope separation, chemical processing, tritium technology, space power, military
and naval reactors, sensitive technologies, strategic petroleum reserve, safeguards bilateral
agreements, weapon and material security, facilities security, utility system security, critical
energy infrastructure, and intelligence. Additionally, HS-92 oversees the review, analysis, and
approval of local classification guides prepared by DOE field and contractor organizations to
ensure conformance with Headquarters classification guidance.
This page was last updated on June 07, 2007
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